All Posts Tagged With: "Food and Drug Administration"

Pharmaceutical Profits and Health Are Inconsistent?

In a critical review of Richard Epstein’s book Overdose: How Excessive Government Regulation Stifles Pharmaceutical Innovation, Arnold Relman (The New Republic, July 30) criticizes drug companies for their hypocrisy. Contrasting the companies’ message to stockholders with their message to the larger world, he quotes Pfizer President Jeffrey Kindler’s statement that his goal is “to create [...]

1Nov2007 | David R. Henderson | 0 comments | Continued

Milton Friedman Is to Blame for Unsafe Food?

There is a “food safety crisis” in America and Milton Friedman is to blame, Princeton University economist Paul Krugman wrote on the New York Times op-ed page May 21. Friedman is responsible, Krugman wrote, because he legitimized a “sickening ideology” that rejects “even the most compelling” cases for government regulation of business. Krugman’s “crisis” stems [...]

1Oct2007 | Arthur E. Foulkes | 3 comments | Continued

Abolishing the FDA

Larry Van Heerden operates the Free-Market Medicine website. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) started out as a bulwark against snake-oil peddling. It has since swung back and forth between hostility and subservience to the drug industry. The FDA seems indifferent to the many deaths its own intransigence has caused and imperious when forced to [...]

1Mar2007 | Larry Van Heerden | 9 comments | Continued

The FDA Cannot Be Reformed

The past year or so has been tough on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In that time, the agency has taken heat over the discovery of a statistical correlation between antidepressants and “suicidal thinking and behavior.” It has also been accused of sitting on information regarding another statistical correlation, this time between pain drugs [...]

1Jul2005 | Arthur E. Foulkes | 0 comments | Continued

Healers Under Siege

Contributing Editor Doug Bandow is a syndicated columnist and the author and editor of several books. He is co-editor of Wealth, Poverty and Human Destiny (ISI, 2003). The Food and Drug Administration has approved a drug to combat non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. That’s good news for cancer patients in America and around the world. But you wouldn’t [...]

1Nov2003 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | Continued

Privatizing Airline Safety and Security

The events of 9/11 underscore the importance of improving the safety and security of air travel. The government’s response to the terrorist attacks employs a command-and-control approach. That approach ought to be questioned. After all, it was the Federal Aviation Administration’s system that failed on 9/11. Why should we expect additional controls to be more [...]

1Nov2002 | and and Paul A. Cleveland | 3 comments | Continued

To America’s Health: A Proposal to Reform the Food and Drug Administration by Henry I. Miller

Hoover Institution Press • 2000 • 112 pages • $14.95 paperback The Food and Drug Administration has a stranglehold on the introduction of new drugs, medical devices, and manufacturer-written information about products. The rationale is to assure quality and safety. Although consumers demand quality and safety assurance, the free-enterprise and tort system are supposedly unable [...]

1Jul2001 | Daniel B. Klein | 0 comments | Continued

Economists Against the FDA

A sulfa drug called Elixir Sulfanilamide released in 1937 killed over 100 Americans, mostly children. A sedative called Thalidomide released in Europe in 1957 and taken by pregnant women caused deformities in 10,000 children. These famous episodes strike us as horrible injustices that must be prevented. But more deadly are quack platitudes that guide public [...]

1Sep2000 | Daniel B. Klein | 8 comments | Continued

Trust and Privacy on the Net

Daniel Klein teaches economics at Santa Clara University. He is the author of Assurance and Trust in a Great Society, a recently published FEE Occasional Paper. With the growth of the Internet has come a lot of talk about privacy. In a recent cover story in The Economist, “The End of Privacy,” the magazine warned [...]

1May2000 | Daniel B. Klein | 0 comments | Continued

A Breach of the Public Trust

M. Reed Hopper is a principal attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation and chairman of the foundation’s Patriot Action League. Few things in life are more uncertain than government regulation. Long-held understandings and settled expectations can literally change overnight in the fickle halls of officialdom. Consistent interpretations of federal law, relied on for years by [...]

1May2000 | M. Reed Hopper | 0 comments | Continued

The Bully that Acts Like a Hero

Harold Jones teaches at Mercer University’s Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics in Macon, Georgia. In 1995 President Clinton established what he called “Operation Restore Trust,” a Health and Human Services initiative aimed at wiping out fraud and abuse in the health-care industry. According to the administration, only terrorism surpassed health-care fraud as [...]

1Mar1999 | Harold B. Jones Jr. | 0 comments | Continued

Regulatory Poison

James Bennett and Thomas DiLorenzo are professors of economics at George Mason University in Virginia and Loyola College in Maryland, respectively. This article is adapted from their forthcoming book, The Food and Drink Police: America’s Nannies, Busybodies, and Petty Tyrants. Last summer the meat-processing company Hudson Foods recalled 25 million pounds of hamburger after several [...]

1Feb1998 | James Bennett | 0 comments | Continued

Hazardous to Our Health? FDA Regulation of Health Care Products

Mr. Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the author of The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology (Transaction). There was a time when people actually trusted the federal government. However, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you” is now considered to be a top joke line, along with [...]

1Jul1996 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | Continued

Increasing Access to Pharmaceuticals

Doug Bandow, guest editor for the February Freeman, is the author and editor of several books, including Reforming Medicine Through Competition and Innovation (John Locke Foundation). The collapse of the campaign to essentially nationalize America’s health-care system put a political stake through the heart of proposals to solve medical problems with new bureaucracies and more [...]

1Feb1996 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | Continued

National Health Insurance: A Medical Disaster

Affordable health care has become one of the most important social issues of our time. Every news broadcast seems to have a special report on “America’s health care crisis” or a politician demanding “universal health insurance.” Evidence cited for the need for immediate and drastic government action includes: High medical costs. The United States reportedly [...]

1Oct1992 | Jarret B. Wollstein | 5 comments | Continued

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